Anna Manning

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The latest Head Locke podcast episode is out and it’s a topic you don’t want to miss: Pundits have spent more than two years asking why Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Timothy Carney, commentary editor at the Washington Examiner, focuses on how Trump tapped into common…

JLF’s Roy Cordato’s research featured in a Truth In Accounting article on teacher pensions in Illinois: The TRS states that it uses net, not gross payments, subtracting taxes from gross payments to active and retired teachers “to be more conservative.” But there is a bigger reason to be more conservative,…

Carolina Journal‘s Don Carrington reports on the Governor’s tightly coordinated pipeline campaign: Gov. Roy Cooper and his staff laid out a comprehensive plan to sell the public on the approval of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a $57.8 million discretionary fund connected to the project, documents show. The parties…

Carolina Journal‘s John Trump writes for Daily Journal: Buffalo Trace and Blanton’s are virtual unicorns for bourbon lovers living in North Carolina. Getting the chance to buy a bottle, particularly Blanton’s, in North Carolina is — using a movie reference — akin to finding a golden ticket in…

Carolina Journal’s Kari Travis reports: Allies of UNC System Board of Governors Chairman Harry Smith are trying to silence a critic on the board, Carolina Journal has learned. Board member Tom Fetzer is lining up votes to introduce an official resolution of censure against Steve Long, a board member…

Carolina Journal‘s John Trump reports: The stack of bills from N.C. lawmakers looking to reform and modernize the state’s 80-year-old liquor laws is growing. In the Senate, lawmakers filed Senate Bill 290 on Monday, March 18. A companion bill, House Bill 378, came Tuesday morning. The measures would…

The latest HeadLocke podcast episode is out. Cities play a major role in the way we live our lives. Free-market economics could play a much larger role in helping those cities function better. That’s one potential outcome of the Urbanity Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.